Source: Jazz em Agosto.
The 40th edition will not be a commemorative edition, but rather another part to be added to the whole, bringing together in the festival space the musical choices that we considered to be the most striking, challenging and less conventional in jazz and creative music in the present time.
The sum of all these parts is our legacy, our Manifesto, in which the next step will always endeavour to be more disruptive than the previous one or simply different, only made possible by the constant search for these exceptional musicians.
From the role of Mahalia Jackson as a civil rights activist, remembered here by James Brandon Lewis’s quintet, to the celebration of Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” in a version for two pianos by Sylvie Courvoisier and Cory Smythe, the evocation of the Fluxus movement in Darius Jones’s project, the creation of a manifesto for the Beatnik movement by Dieb 13, or through the reinvention of Mats Gustafsson’s Fire! Orchestra, there are several intersections of the past with the present in this Jazz em Agosto.
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